Example sentences of "that it [vb mod] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He judged that it would be difficult to persuade readers of the artistry of Klee 's art , which appeared similar to children 's drawings , so he stressed the work 's imaginative content . |
| 2 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 3 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 4 | Langlois-Château said that it would be developing a range of single domaine wines in the future . |
| 5 | Your dear new uncle-in-law whom I was fortunate enough to encounter on the morning train from Paddington agrees that it would be nice if our friends from the constabulary were to join us . ’ |
| 6 | There are so many other examples of literature from the Tudor and Stuart period which influenced Agatha Christie that it would be invidious to mention any of them . |
| 7 | I assured myself that it would be only temporary and I would soon be in a flat again , but ‘ temporary ’ turned out to be five years . |
| 8 | I feel sort of fixed that it would be the best thing … you know it would . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've kissed you and more , and none of that lightly , and you know , and I know , that it would be so good — for Chrissake , ’ she said . |
| 10 | I think that it would be true to say that , nowadays , most materialists want to avoid theories that are as nakedly behaviouristic as this , and want to accommodate the common-sense intuition that something inner and introspectible is missing in the blind or deaf , for example , in addition to their lost capacity to respond . |
| 11 | But the electrophysiological examples I have described go some way to countering Wittgenstein 's negative assertion : ‘ No supposition seems to me more natural than that there is no process in the brain correlated with associating or with thinking ; so that it would be impossible to read off thought-processes from brain-processes ’ ( Zettel , paragraph 608 , Anscombe 's translation , 1967 ) . |
| 12 | However , the functionalist view is that it would be quite misguided to attempt to explain behaviour by making direct reference to the subjective or phenomenal qualities ( technically known as qualia ) of these mental states . |
| 13 | In principle it would be quite possible for the study of English poetry to begin in a similar ab initio fashion , except that it would be fruitless for someone to embark on it who did not have at least some familiarity with poetry and a wish to read more . |
| 14 | Having learnt its worst fears were about to be realised , that it would be handed over to Chinese rule in 1997 without external protections or guarantees , it immediately put the best possible face on its situation . |
| 15 | A party spokesman then suggested that it would be ignored , saying : ‘ Future levels of defence spending will be considered by a Labour government solely in the context of implementing the policy review . ’ |
| 16 | Two is that it would be extremely unwise for Biggs to engage in serious pugilistic activity without first retaining the services of an attendant unlikely to panic at the sight of a badly lacerated brow . |
| 17 | Mrs Nutt submitted that it would be difficult , if not impossible , for the appellant to try and set about to prove that the co-defendant had not committed an act of gross indecency with him , that he was in effect deprived of any opportunity of cross-examining or otherwise challenging the co-defendant and that to admit the evidence would be simply to render the proceedings against the appellant wholly unfair . |
| 18 | The truth as observed at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday is that it would be exceedingly foolish for admirers to think of Mason as better than a developing apprentice in a punishing trade . |
| 19 | Screensport , the satellite television service , announced yesterday that it would be showing each of the World Series matches live . |
| 20 | During the debate Roy Hattersley , the deputy leader , argued that it would be ‘ historic folly ’ for Labour to back proportional representation ; inevitable coalitions would mean that ‘ we would never again have a Labour government that was able to carry out a Labour programme ’ . |
| 21 | ' He told the Conservative Party that it would be an unpopular tax when he first opposed the idea — successfully — as Secretary of State for the Environment in the early Eighties . |
| 22 | The move caused some surprise in Whitehall , where the belief is that it would be damaging to Mr de Klerk if he were seen to be making reformist moves because of external pressure . |
| 23 | Only last June , when this first Supreme Soviet worthy of the name was elected from the Congress of People 's Deputies , everyone predicted that it would be a pretty soft touch . |
| 24 | The change in price has been dramatic — in 1986 it was estimated that it would be impossible to distribute imported whisky free of charge at a cost of less than Y 2,600 a bottle . |
| 25 | It was quite possible that it would be still open for business . |
| 26 | One workers ' meeting had even suggested that it would be better to shoot Lenin or Trotsky rather than Patriarch Tikhon . |
| 27 | I apprehend however that it would be disappointing to you — I ca n't think why — if I were to stop at this point . |
| 28 | Of course I realise that the fallacy is so crude that it would be below the dignity of any academic economist to soil himself with such much . |
| 29 | These companies realized at an early stage that there is no point in trying to compete with the majors in releasing daytime radio or ‘ Top of the Pops ’ material , and that it would be better to find acts who have proved popular on the live circuit but who are considered too left field for the majors . |
| 30 | Conversely , managers ( quite reasonably ) insist that it would be equally unjust if their rights to commission on projects which they have initiated were to cease the moment they parted company from the artist . |